Photo by Steve Dutch, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay

AWARDS & HONORS

1983-84 Guggenheim Fellow

1984 Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences

1985 G. K. Gilbert Award, Division of Planetary Geology, Geological Society of America

1986 Honorary Foreign Fellowship, European Union of Geosciences

1986 Honorary citizenship, Piobbico, Italy

1986-87 Miller Research Professor, University of California, Berkeley

1988 Minor planet "Alvarez" (1985 HC), discovered

1985 by C. S. Shoemaker and E. M. Shoemaker, named for L. W. Alvarez and W. Alvarez

1989 Fellow of the American Geophysical Union

1991 Rennie Taylor Award of the American Tentative Society (Science Journalists)

1991 Elected to the National Academy of Sciences

1992 Elected Foreign Member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences

1993 Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

1993 Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters, Illinois Wesleyan University

1994 Honorary citizenship, Gubbio, Italy

1998 Journalism Award of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists

 
EMERITI
Bruce A. Bolt
Garniss H. Curtis
Richard L. Hay
David L. Jones
Luna B. Leopold
Lionel E. Weiss
PROFESSORS
Walter Alvarez
Jillian Banfield
William Berry
James Bishop
Kristie Boering
George Brimhall
Mark Bukowinski
Roland Bürgmann
Ian Carmichael
Eugene Chiang
Ronald Cohen
Kurt Cuffey
Donald DePaolo
Imke De Pater
William Dietrich
Douglas Dreger
Inez Fung
Harold Helgeson
B. Lynn Ingram
Raymond Jeanloz
Lane Johnson
James Kirchner
Michael Manga
H. Frank Morrison
James W. Rector III
Paul Renne
Mark Richards
Barbara Romanowicz
Doris Sloan
Chi-Yuen Wang
Hans-Rudolf Wenk

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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